This Bill prioritizes profits over affordability and completely disregards the UN report that revealed land use changes are the leading driver of catastrophic biodiversity loss.
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Many of the proposed changes essentially make the act useless for protecting endangered species. There may be ways to make it such that the process of evaluation is more streamlined, but what this act does is simply eliminate aspects that would allow species to be protected.
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I fully support the proposed changes to the 10 year review of the ESA. These proposed changes have been needed to bring a balance to some of the species that have been designated either special concern, threatened or endangered.
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As a professional working in the field of environmental conservation, working directly with species at risk approvals, and as a Ph.D. in Ecology, I directly oppose the proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act. I have selected a few key points to address below.
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Keep the requirements for on-the ground compensation for harmful activities - no paying into a fund.
Do not limit the protections for endangered species to specific geographies - no Ministerial veto.
Do not open COSSARO to people without expertise in species assessment - keep science basis.
I have some grave concerns about the proposed changes to the ESA, and the following are a few:
-Allowing developers the opportunity to pay a fee in order to proceed with activities that would harm species at risk and their habitats is just wrong.
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Decreasing protections for endangered wildlife in time of mass extinctions and climate change is irresponsible and uneducated. Input should come from those with education in the field and not governments pandering to industry.
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Doug Ford stop saying 'my friends" - you are not a friend. I am thoroughly disgusted and appalled at the irreversible damage and loss that the Ontario Government is proposing through changes to the Endangered Species Act.
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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act.
The proposal, as it stands, is reckless for a number of reasons:
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I have specific questions I want more information or clarity on:
1. I would like know how extending the time frame from 3 months to 12 months to list a species after receiving the COSSARO report, benefits that species?
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The final statement tells all: This is being proposed in to preserve the ability of the Minister to act swiftly and minimize associated social or economic impacts.
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The Endangered Species Act not only protects species, which are important in themselves and as part of the web of life that supports humanity; the ESA protects high quality natural habitat which is crucial to the health and well-being of people in Ontario.
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I appreciate the opportunity to express my disappointment with the weakening of the Endangered Species Act proposed in Bill 108 Schedule 5. This Bill has been published co-incident with a UN Report by the IPBES which warns of
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We need to save species at risk by protecting their habitat. Do not cut down woodlands and wetlands where many species of animals live. Preserve their homes. Preserve our natural areas. We have enough developed lands.
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The Ontario government's plan to gut the ESA is both regressive and dangerous. The world is facing the largest mass extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
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